Jacob E.
NRA Basic Pistol Course (May 19, 2015)
Highly highly recommended. I took the NRA Basic Pistol Shooting Course with Howard. I could tell in the first few minutes of the class this guy knows his stuff and he's got a passion for teaching. He's not intimidating at all, nice guy actually. No question too basic. He just wants to share as much knowledge as possible and for you to enjoy firearms as he does. The class portion is at his house, and it's totally safe. He's got a nice classroom setup with a large screen TV for the powerpoint presentation and videos. After the class portion, we all drove to a nearby shooting range. What I liked: 1) Only two of us in the class (he doesn't take more than 4). 2) He had a bunch of real pistols in class. You get to handle them, load them, dry fire them, and even choose which one you'd like to try in the range. No live ammo in class. 3) The gun range part can get kinda scary. But he's right behind you when you shoot, encouraging you. 4) At the gun range, even after the official NRA course has ended, he had us doing a few more drills where he makes the paper target approach you and you gotta fire as many rounds as you comfortably can.